Amazing Video of the known universe

Conor108

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Its really interesting!

Mr Lahey

Incredible!

rccaulfield

Class- didn't know we hadn't mapped large chunks at opposite ends of the universe! Hard to imagine us ever getting past Uranus for any reason.

slade_x

Larger Definition:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U&hd=1

ynotdu

Stunning Conor! Thank you!

Stargate

Yes , we ARE alone in the Universe on our tiny pale blue dot :eek:
I suppose ET will be on over the xmas I wonder when he will be calling for real !! :pac:

Beeker

Thanks for posting that. Very interesting!

Cmar-Ireland

Don't post in this forum, but regularly look through it.
Noob question.... why is 'space' mapped like two cones point to point?

When the image panned right out there are two areas yet to be mapped?

chop86

Cmar-Ireland wrote: »

Don't post in this forum, but regularly look through it.
Noob question.... why is 'space' mapped like two cones point to point?

When the image panned right out there are two areas yet to be mapped?

I think I read somewhere that its because our own galaxy is in the way, the centre of our galaxy is very densely packed with stars and its too bright to see the rest of the universe behind it......I think!!!!

Carne

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17jymDn0W6U

Rubecula

Carne wrote: »

The Known Universe takes viewers from the Himalayas through our atmosphere and the inky black of space to the afterglow of the Big Bang. Every star, planet, and quasar seen in the film is possible because of the world's most complete four-dimensional map of the universe, the Digital Universe Atlas that is maintained and updated by astrophysicists at the American Museum of Natural History. The new film, created by the Museum, is part of an exhibition, Visions of the Cosmos: From the Milky Ocean to an Evolving Universe, at the Rubin Museum of Art in Manhattan through May 2010.

Can you explain this bit:

four-dimensional

The Gnome

Time being the forth dimension. As light takes a certain amount of time to travel a set distance, the further an object is away on a cosmic the further back in time you're seeing it.

For example in the video the quasars are 13.7 billion light years away so we see them as they were 13.7 billion years ago.